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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 14, 2019 13:47:52 GMT -5
We did get the origin of Ego in this arc, which I had never read before. I didn't realize that he used to be a man. Nor did I! Now I have to dig out my Official Handbook... Assuming it didn't get retconned by the time that came out!
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Post by badwolf on Jun 14, 2019 15:08:19 GMT -5
Nor did I! Now I have to dig out my Official Handbook... Assuming it didn't get retconned by the time that came out! And apparently it was! But it is mentioned in the Deluxe Edition. It says that it is not true that Ego was created by the fusion of a planet and humanoid consciousness, as it led Thor to believe, but actually did evolve naturally as a planetary entity.
I think that's much cooler, anyway. Good retcon!
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 14, 2019 15:22:24 GMT -5
Assuming it didn't get retconned by the time that came out! And apparently it was! But it is mentioned in the Deluxe Edition. It says that it is not true that Ego was created by the fusion of a planet and humanoid consciousness, as it led Thor to believe, but actually did evolve naturally as a planetary entity.
I think that's much cooler, anyway. Good retcon!
I agree!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 15, 2019 14:24:15 GMT -5
I'm pretty busy for a few days. (I just realized I haven't read Wonder Woman #72, which I got on Wednesday!) So I don't have time for an in-depth review, but I wanted to say a few words about Avengers #8 while it's still fresh in my mind. This isn't one I read when I was a kid, so I've not read it over and over again like I did with #1 or #2 or #4 or #6. I first saw it around 2000 when I bought Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers, Volume One. So I've read it a few times. I used to pick up this volume every so often because I love it so much! (Especially in conjunction with Fantastic Four #25 and #26. Avengers #1 to #4 and FF #25 and #26 is one of my all-time favorite comic book storylines. I've started calling it "GET THE HULK!" and I think it should be collected in a TPB under that title.) And I also love Avengers #8! I don't know what it is. It starts like an old science fiction movie, only instead of the military turning to a mere scientist, they call the Avengers! Kang is so awesome here! And the Wasp! I love her so much! She doesn't always do very much, but she's so much fun! I love the part where she says Kang must be handsome under his "silly headgear." I also love the bit where she's trying SO HARD not to be useless and Kang grabs her between his thumb and forefinger. Oh Janet! Foiled by two fingers of a purple 30th-century glove! But give her credit for saving the day by … calling the Teen Brigade! (Believe me, if I was writing the Avengers, I would bring back the Teen Brigade SO FAST! Which is why I will probably never be writing the Avengers.) This time around, I read it very slowly and noticed that this dumb story is even dumber than I remember. I think that a lot of the time when I read it, I just look at the pretty pictures and only read the Wasp's word balloons. I think I must have been skipping over the scientific explanations because they are so dumb. Almost as dumb as the explanation in a low-budget Bela Lugosi movie. Next: Avengers #9, wherein Don Heck gets thrown into the deep end!
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Post by urrutiap on Jun 16, 2019 22:18:48 GMT -5
Today ive read issues 7 to 10 of Len Wein's Swamp Thing from the still new 2018 Bronze Age Vol 1 trade of Swamp Thing
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Post by brutalis on Jun 17, 2019 7:39:25 GMT -5
Read Kamandi 8, 9 and 10. Nothing like some good ol' Kirby Snap, Krackle and Pop to clear the brain!!!
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 17, 2019 15:58:56 GMT -5
Read 2008 Legion #37-49 and really enjoyed it, Jim Shooter puts a lot of balls in the air, action, relationships, bureaucracies... plus some of the worlds collide Edmund Hamilton sf! I may dis his Secret Wars and Korvac stories, but this was a top drawer run, wish there was more than just one last final issue. Also read Thor #21-25 circa 2000 (but minus the 2000 Annual) and enjoyed that, though a bit of a re-run in some ways. A reunion with Firelord against Thanos, and all of existence at stake, plus some Dick Giordano inking; can't be bad. I also like the coloring even if it is that shiny airbrush sort of thing, it's done very well with careful choices of hues for the most part. The Legion comics were well colored also.
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Post by rberman on Jun 17, 2019 17:07:27 GMT -5
Read 2008 Legion #37-49 and really enjoyed it, Jim Shooter puts a lot of balls in the air, action, relationships, bureaucracies... plus some of the worlds collide Edmund Hamilton sf! I may dis his Secret Wars and Korvac stories, but this was a top drawer run, wish there was more than just one last final issue. Glad you enjoyed it! I regret that his work (and Waid's) was made irrelevant by the subsequent Levitz un-reboot.
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Post by String on Jun 17, 2019 18:19:00 GMT -5
I think it was.....mrp (or maybe cody?) who suggested this mini to me awhile back after mentioning that I had never read any Phantom comics not even by Falk. Whomever suggested this would be a great introduction to the character and after finally reading it, I wholeheartedly agree! Terrific story by David telling of the parallel dangers posed by a long-time family to Kit, modern day Phantom, and his ancestor the 13th Phantom. Orlando's art is terrific as well. The colorist, Mike Tollin, is an aficionado of the Phantom and his background essays in these issues were highly informative and fun. Just a fun exciting read all around and ready to read some more of the Phantom. My only nitpick is that the names of the three pirate brothers that the 13th Phantom hunted down were switched around between #2 and #3. A very minor gaff in the larger fun of it all.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jun 19, 2019 9:47:05 GMT -5
A couple of weeks ago I returned from my friend's wedding in the USA. I flew in from Hong Kong, and stayed in New York, Philadelphia, and back in New York for a total of about ten days. Over the course of that period, I had a ton of time to catch up on some comic reading. I've made it a personal goal to read as many comics of the The Avengers as I can from the very beginning. At least to issue to 300. The plane ride over and back amounted to a grand total of about 30 hours. I barely slept, because to my amazement I didn't necessarily want to most of the time. I was wrapped up in a classic comics binge. To my surprise it didn't get super boring. I was on issue 28 I believe when I had stopped reading The Avengers. I took a long break, and when I recently started again I made it all the way to issue 58, which I'm on now. I got through most of that on the trip. It's been an overall interesting odyssey thus far. Stan Lee's writing of course, is whatever, but I got used to it, especially after reading so much of his Fantastic Four run. Don Heck's art through the bulk of these issues is a tough pill to swallow. I'm not too big a fan of what he brought to the table. Starting with issue 41 I think is when John Buscema takes over. After a couple of issues warming up, he really starts to hit his stride. Especially in a couple of issues where he inks the pages himself instead of someone else. You can really make out the difference. It's superb. I think my favorite panel he did though was in issue 51. Long story short, Thor is in this issue and is being mind controlled by The Collector. He is able to get out of it, and helps rescue the other captured Avengers. This panel here reminded me of the airplane scene from Iron Man 3. Thought the layout was really cool by Buscema with the explosion in the background sky: Roy Thomas taking over now is an upgrade, but I don't feel it's night and day from what Stan was doing thus far. Making the lineup a skeleton crew with issues consisting mostly of Hawkeye, Goliath, and Wasp is a little entertaining since the team really is running on fumes at that point with a lack of members. Captain America vanishing, Hercules having a cup of coffee, and Thor/Iron Man making guest appearances I'm indifferent about. Magneto getting Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch back on his side was a nice twist. Black Panther was just added, and I'm also indifferent about that thus far. Great for more diversity, but I hope he gets more dimension moving forward. I'm trying to think of my favorite character after all these issues up to this point, and I guess it's Hawkeye? However, no one is a clear cut winner. Hercules was funny with the dialogue given to him at least. Wasp is cool, but unfortunately depicted as a needy/helpless woman. Just a victim of the times. Anyway, The Black Knight is back in the mix again. Along with the new Masters of Evil. I'm thinking I should stop to start reading X-Men as I really want to get through those early Stan Lee/Jack Kirby issues. I think I'm on issue 25 or something. A long way to go until I get to what Roy Thomas' remix...
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 19, 2019 23:43:34 GMT -5
Got the Frank Miller Daredevil omnibus through interlibrary loan and finished it, except for the special features. That was DD 158-191.
Ummm... really, really good.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2019 1:43:53 GMT -5
At the last con I was at, I picked up a couple of the Gladstone albums featuring Barks' Uncle Scrooge for $2 each, and I read these this week. My exposure to Bark's Scrooge is limited, but I have liked what little I read, so I snapped these up and devoured them. the albums can be seen here (along with the other $2 trade I snagged at the show). The covers are by DonRosa but the stories are all Barks. The first (#6) featured The Land Beneath the Ground, as Scrooge and company encounter the Terries and the Fermies as he tries to prevent an earthquake in Ducksburg that could threaten his money pit and hijinks ensue. The second story in that album was Pipeline to Danger, in which Scrooge and company discover a lost civilization shrunken down by the desert heat while trying to secure a new oil supply. The second album (#19) featured only one Barks story, The Golden Fleecing-a retelling and modernization of the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece, and a second story produced by/for Gutenberghus translated into English. All were great fun and I need to track down some more Barks ducks to read. -M
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 20, 2019 3:13:29 GMT -5
I've always been particularly fond of The Golden Fleecing, as it was one of the first Barks Duck stories that I ever read (of course, at the time I had no idea who Barks was). I had it in the late '70s in this Whitman reprint book: At around the same time, I also had this one, which is another sentimental favorite by Barks: I've since reacquired both of those particular books. You really can't go wrong with Barks and the Ducks; they're so well-written (and plotted), beautifully drawn and so, so much fun.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 20, 2019 5:55:15 GMT -5
Finally finished Vol.16 of Dragonball which ends the early adventures of Goku and leads into the more famous Dragonball Z. I enjoyed the series, but I much preferred the earlier volumes where Toriyama's stories were more humorous (and downright hilarious at times) and more about world building, exploration and adventure. According to Toriyama, sales went down when chapters weren't all out fights, so it's understandable why the last two volumes or so basically took place at the "Strongest Under the Heavens Tournament." While I love the over the top action, the tournament chapters were the least interesting to me.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 20, 2019 8:15:16 GMT -5
I've always been particularly fond of The Golden Fleecing, as it was one of the first Barks Duck stories that I ever read (of course, at the time I had no idea who Barks was). I had it in the late '70s in this Whitman reprint book: At around the same time, I also had this one, which is another sentimental favorite by Barks: I've since reacquired both of those particular books. You really can't go wrong with Barks and the Ducks; they're so well-written (and plotted), beautifully drawn and so, so much fun. I've got that Dynabrite Donald Duck and the Golden Helmet comic! Luckily I held onto it all of these years. I don't have many of those Dynabrite comics, but they're great! I have a few Disneys and two Star Treks!
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